Raymond Leppard On Music

Author : Raymond Leppard
Publisher : Bold Strummer
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0912483962

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Raymond Leppard on Music by Raymond Leppard Pdf

Author : Raymond Leppard
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Conductors (Music)
ISBN : 1848766327

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Music Made Me by Raymond Leppard Pdf

Raymond Leppard is one of the most respected international conductors of our time, having appeared with nearly all of the world's leading orchestras in his five decades on the podium and with more than 200 recordings to his credit. In his memoir 'Music Made Me', he shares how his friendships have enriched his life as a musician.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110633919

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Mark Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351578141

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A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler by Mark Ellis Pdf

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. Here, Dr Mark Ellis presents a series of musical examples illustrating the 'evolution' of the augmented sixth and the changing contexts in which it can be found. Surprisingly, the sonority emerged from one of the last remnants of modal counterpoint to survive into the tonal era: the Phrygian Cadence. In the Baroque period, the 'terrible dissonance' was nearly always associated with negative textual imagery. Charpentier described the augmented sixth as 'poignantly expressive'. J. S. Bach considered an occurrence of the chord in one of his forebear's motets 'remarkably bold'. During Bach's composing lifetime, the augmented sixth evolved from a relatively rare chromaticism to an almost commonplace element within the tonal spectrum; the chord reflects particular chronological and stylistic strata in his music. Theorists began cautiously to accept the chord, but its inversional possibilities proved particularly contentious, as commentaries by writers as diverse as Muffat, Marpurg and Rousseau reveal. During the eighteenth century, the augmented sixth became increasingly significant in instrumental repertoires - it was perhaps Vivaldi who first liberated the chord from its negative textual associations. By the later eighteenth century, the chord began to function almost as a 'signpost' to indicate important structural boundaries within sonata form. The chord did not, however, entirely lose its darker undertone: it signifies, for example, the theme of revenge in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Romantic composers uncovered far-reaching tonal ambiguities inherent in the augmented sixth. Chopin's Nocturnes often seem beguilingly simple, but the surface tranquillity masks the composer's strikingly original harmonic experiments. Wagner's much-analyzed 'Tristan Chord' resolves (according to some theorists) on an augmented sixth. In Tristan und Isolde, the chord's mercurial

Author : Brad Hill
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816069767

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Classical by Brad Hill Pdf

Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of classical music.

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351552103

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Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage by Ellen Rosand Pdf

After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. The coincidence of productions at La Scala (Milan) and Covent Garden (London) in the same month (September 2008) of two different operas signals a new stage in the recovery of these extraordinary works, confined until now to special venues committed to 'early music'-opera festivals, conservatory, and university productions. The works of the composer who is credited with having invented the genre of opera as we know it are finally enjoying a renaissance. A new edition of Cavalli's twenty-eight operas is in preparation, and the composer and his works are at the center of a great deal of new scholarship ranging from the study of sources and production issues to the cultural context of opera of this period. In the face of such burgeoning interest, this collection of essays considers the Cavalli revival from various points of view. In particular, it explores the multiple issues involved in the transformation of an operatic manuscript into a performance. Although focused on the works of Cavalli, much of this material can transfer easily to other operatic repertoires.Following an introductory part, reflecting back on four decades of Cavalli performances by some of the conductors responsible for the revival of interest in the composer, the collection is divided into four further parts: The Manuscript Scores, Giasone: Production and Interpretation, Making Librettos, and Cavalli Beyond Venice.

Author : Millie Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319952222

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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC by Millie Taylor Pdf

This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple iterations have provided a picture of developing styles, genres, working practices, technologies and contexts; actor musicianship has been practiced quietly and without fuss; and the role of the sound designer has appeared and transformed the theatrical soundscape. This book moves to musical theatre to evidence a continuum between its rich interdisciplinary textures and the musicodramatic world of Shakespeare’s plays, positioning the RSC as an innovative company that continually expands the creative and collaborative possibilities of the theatre.

Author : John Goulden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317096917

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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor by John Goulden Pdf

Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared between the violin-leader, musical director and maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not only baton conducting in its modern form, but also higher standards of training and discipline, a new orchestral lay-out and a more focused rehearsal regime. The resulting rise in standards of performance was arguably the greatest achievement of English music in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The key figure in this process was Michael Costa, who built for himself unprecedented contractual powers and used his awesome personal authority to impose reform on the three main institutions of mid-Victorian music: the opera houses, the Philharmonic and the Sacred Harmonic Society. He was a central figure in the battles between the two rival opera houses, between the Philharmonic and the New Philharmonic, and between the venerable Ancient Concerts and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Costa’s uniquely powerful position in the operatic, symphonic and choral world and the rapidity with which he was forgotten after his death provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing aesthetics of the Victorian musical world.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780714545196

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Operas of Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

Monteverdi's 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than thirty years later to entertain Venetian audiences in the first public opera houses. Orfeo was long considered untranslatable, because the text is so closely tied to the music, and the Venetian librettos owe some of their brilliance to Spanish Golden Age theatre. This opera guide is an opportunity to read all three of Monteverdi's stage works together, in Anne Ridler's graceful translations.Contents: Operas contained in this volume: Orfeo, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria, L'incoronazione di Poppea; Monteverdi, Opera and History, lain Fenlon; On Translating Opera, Anne Ridler; PART ONE: Mantua; A masterpiece for a Court, John Whenham; Music Examples; 'Orfeo': Favola in musica by Alessandro Striggio the Younger; Orfeo: English singing version by Anne Ridler; PART TWO: Venice; Musical Theatre in Venice, Paolo Fabbri; The Spanish Contribution to the Birth of Opera, Jack Sage; Monteverdi Returns to his Homeland, Tim Carter; Musical Examples; ll ritorno d'Ulisse in patria: Dramma in musica by Giacomo Badoaro; The Return of Ulysses: English singing version by Anne Ridler; Public Vice, Private Virtue, lain Fenlon and Peter Miller; Musical Examples; L'incoronazione di Poppea: Opera musicale by Giovanni Francesco Busenello; The Coronation of Poppea: English singing version by Anne Ridler

Author : William Phemister
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538112342

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The American Piano Concerto Compendium by William Phemister Pdf

The second edition of The American Piano Concerto Compendium reveals to professional and amateurs pianists forty percent more works than the first edition from 1985. It is a valuable resource not only for pianists and conductors, but also for orchestras, teachers, students, music historians and critics, collectors, and concert attendees.

Author : Claude V. Palisca
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252092077

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Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Claude V. Palisca Pdf

This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0851159362

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The Music of Lennox Berkeley by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Fully revised edition of Peter Dickinson's acclaimed study of one of the great British composers of the twentieth century. Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its survival far beyond transient fashions. Peter Dickinson knew Berkeley for more than thirty years and this much enlarged book places the composer in the context of his extended study with Nadia Boulanger, his friendship with Britten, and the achievement of an independent voice of remarkable distinction. The new book now benefits from interviews with Lady Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Julian Bream, Colin Horsley, Sir John Manduell, Nicholas Maw, Malcolm Williamson and the late Basil Douglas, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Norman del Mar. There are photographs, a full list of works, bibliographies and over a hundred musical examples. PETER DICKINSON is Head of Music at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London and an Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Keele and London.

Author : Sophie Fuller,Jenny Doctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000007978

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Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77 by Sophie Fuller,Jenny Doctor Pdf

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

Author : Kenneth Sillito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528904850

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From the Leader's Chair by Kenneth Sillito Pdf

Kenneth Sillito is internationally recognised as one of Britain's most distinguished musicians. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied with David Martin at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Rome with Remy Principe. His first major appointment was as associate leader of the newly created English Chamber Orchestra in 1960. He was subsequently appointed leader and remained with the orchestra until 1973, during which time he established a worldwide reputation as both director and soloist. In 1967, he founded the Gabrieli String Quartet, which swiftly established itself as one of this country's leading chamber ensembles. With the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which he joined in l980, Kenneth led and directed innumerable distinguished recordings and performances until his retirement in 2012. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1971 and awarded the highly prestigious Cobbett Medal in 2017 by The Worshipful Company of Musicians for his services to chamber music.

Author : Peter Wiegold,Ghislaine Kenyon
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839651

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Beyond Britten by Peter Wiegold,Ghislaine Kenyon Pdf

Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years.